Amazon cloud can help hack WiFi networks: Security Expert

I'm going to let reuters know that I have figured out a quick and inexpensive way to use my Apple laptop to crack their windows password. Maybe they'll ring up Cupertino for a reaction?<p>Others that are complicit in this notorious plan: Intel, Nvidia, Linux Torvalds, PG&#38;E.

Actually we've tried this out with the new GPU instances. Previously we had to run large instances with various degrees of kludges for different crackers, but the GPU instances really ratchet things up.

More cloud fluff. Yes, cracking a pre-shared key requires a lot of processing. The more computers working on this, the less time required.

New formula for news story headline:<p>Famous-Company blah blah Cloud blah blah Scary-Stuff blah blah Somebody Important<p>"Microsoft's new Cloud Service can be used to design nuclear weapons: UN Expert"<p>"Rackspace Cloud used by terrorists: TSA Official Claims"<p>We can do a million of these.

And yet this is still a brute force (or dictionary) attack. WPA-PSK is still secure as long as you're using a long-enough, randomly generated secret.

Seriously old news: <a href="http://www.wpacracker.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wpacracker.com/</a><p>Run by hacker Molly Marlinspike (thoughtcrime.org).

I wonder what is the cost to crack a single WIFI password

been used plenty of times by others for the same purpose ;)